It was really incredible to collaborate with fantastic bilingual Welsh singer and rapper Izzy Rabey on producing her come back track ‘Be Tisho’. Izzy trusted me with taking care of the track completely from recording to mixing. With some mastering help from Ian Dean we felt ready to share the tune with the world. The track received play on BBC Cymru and landed Izzy an interview with Nation Cymru.
Izzy talks about the song:
The song itself is about the journey of realising that sometimes our goals we set for ourselves dont always end up being the glorious adventure we thought they’d be. And I picked a genre to express each moment of that journey of realisation. For example, the dreamy jazz intro is used to express the sentimentality and romanticism I placed on a certain job I took and literally translates as “I’m thinking this is it, what you want, thinking this is it, what you want” (Be Tisho means ‘What you want’, to clarify!), then when it switches into the rapped verses is actually shares the reality of the experience itself.
Rap is about expressing truth, it’s about storytelling and painting a picture of what’s actually going on, so that genre worked perfectly for the verses.
Then with the big, belting chorus, I had this image of trying to musically convey how I would work so hard to convince myself that this experience was what I needed to take my career to the next level. Hence the “Ah ah ah ah Angen!” – I wanted it to sound like I was being physically shaken by an external force to try and convince myself that this was something crucial to my development as a creative person.
The second verse is actually about realising how valuable this experience was in terms of what I actually want/need.
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